RT Recap: Day Four

I woke up on Saturday, coughing and hacking. Ann and Jeri, my roomates, have to shovel me out from under a pile of plasterdust. We dug a tunnel into the bathroom and screamed. We have turned into dust zombies. Instead of brains, we eat sawdust and plaster. We were going to be trapped in this hotel forever!

Jeri found an axe and we took turns swinging the mighty weapon against the wall, hacking away at it, trying to get out from the room...until I remembered how Barry Eisler showed us how to kick down a cheap hotel room door. Hi-KYAaaah! The door fell. And we made our escape...changing out of our sawdust nighties in the elevator, which fell twenty stories, even though we were on the fifth floor. We were professionals. We wiped away the last of the dusty evidence just when the elevator door opened, and Jeri, Ann, and I plastered on our happy author smiles, blinking away dirt as we walked out towards the big room for the Book Fair. Whew, made it.

300-plus authors. Over a thousand readers. Four hours of book heaven. Yeeha!

Here is a FANTASTIC video made by the Rebels of Romance, my drinking buddy Liz Maverick and her drinking buddy Marianne Mancusi ;-), of the day's events. If you want to know what an RT Book Fair is like, click on the video. You'll be amazed at the rows and rows of people. There is also footage of the Mr. Romance Contest so you can catch a glimpse of the show. Eye candy galore, peeps ;-).


Rebels of Romance Video Blog Day 4 from the Romantic Times Convention from Miss Media Productions on Vimeo.

Those two girls sure know how to have fun, don't they? Look at all the readers crowding around them!

Unlike this author below, who had to make her own sign because someone misplaced hers:


Sob. If you can't read the sign, it says, Gennita Low Will Rite Fur Fud.

One reader came to me and said, "What's FUD? (rhymed with cud)" Sigh. Another reader told me I needed an editor. Double-sob-sigh. Finally, I had to bring out the ace in the hole--I finished my coffee and holding the empty cup, I even had a rhyme going: "Save an author with a quarter."

It worked! I was hugged and loved by everyone after that:










Okay, I was just playing, in case you didn't get that. Many readers came over and talked to me, asking about Virtually Hers. I loved talking to you all and am really grateful for all the support you've given me this past year. Thanks for dropping by and buying my books, everyone.


That's Colleen Gleason, who writes an awesome Victorian vampire slayer series. She was the only author I managed to get to for a copy of her book because I couldn't get away from my seat. Everyone else that I wanted sold out! Wahhh.

I did get to see the Mr. Romance Competition. My friend, Chris Winters, won! He's a real sweetheart and a very funny person (when I first met him, he showed me how to clap with one's feet).






Unlike SOME PEOPLE, ahem, I couldn't afford the $$$ to be at the special romance model reunion dinner (it's a charity event), so I had to post the following pic of SOME PERSON WHO COULD and tell everyone that's me. Doesn't she look adorable? I'm jealous. Ah well. Hungry roofers can't waste her money on Fabio and Adrian Paul.

Oh, by the way, for those who emailed me expressing horror that I was pretending to be Marjorie Liu and telling everyone she's forty...ummm...it was a JOKE, folks. Honestly, look at the above photo again. Do you really think she's forty? Sigh. Marjorie knows I was just funning.

Anyway, that's all the RT stuff, folks. Hope you got a better picture of the convention and all its activities. It's going to be in Orlando, FL. next year! Come, if you can, because I'm going to be there again, wearing my Marjorie Liu badge.

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